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In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War QUOTES

In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War QUOTES

1 " In the very act of writing I felt pleased with what I did. There was the pleasure of having words come to me, and the pleasure of ordering them, re-ordering them, weighing one against another. Pleasure also in the imagination of the story, the feeling that it could mean something. Mostly I was glad to find out that I could write at all. In writing you work toward a result you won't see for years, and can't be sure you'll ever see. It takes stamina and self-mastery and faith. It demands those things of you, then gives them back with a little extra, a surprise to keep you coming. It toughens you and clears your head. I could feel it happening. I was saving my life with every word I wrote, and I knew it. "

― Tobias Wolff , In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War

2 " Lose Faith. Pray anyway. Persist. We are made to persist, to complete the whole tour. That's how we find out who we are. "

― Tobias Wolff , In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War

3 " They knew that once they were among the people we would abandon our pretense of distinguishing between them. We would kill them all to get at one. In this way they taught the people that we did not love them and would not protect them; that for all our talk of partnership and brotherhood we disliked and mistrusted them, and that we would kill every last one of them to save our own skins. To believe otherwise was self-deception. They taught that lesson to the people, and also to us. At least they taught it to me. "

― Tobias Wolff , In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War